Author: UFOSqL

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Aloha UFOhana,

Well here we are, on our way to our eighteenth Vanikapila. I hope you have all stayed safe and healthy on this journey of ours. Keep faith everyone, the path is a long one but worth the effort.

Thankfully we’re able to maintain some kind of connection be it virtual or from ten feet away . . .

Below, this Saturday’s LiveStream link.

Click below, to view the OK-ers from last Saturday.

Please text me at 415-300-7804 to RSVP a seat for the Outdoor Kanikapila. Space is limited so text me sooner than later.

Again, from Nohea an myself, Mahalo Nui Loa to all of you that help keep the strumming alive at the UFOHQ and studio K’ULU. Thanks to your kokua (assistance) you make it all worthwhile and setup and tear down as easy as possible. You leave nothing but happy echoes and good memories.

I mentioned last week that we’d be trying a new song, Na Vaqueros (by Kuana Torres Kahele), this Saturday. A beautiful Hapa Sepania (Spanish) Mele to which some of the girls know a beautiful hula. Click here to download the song sheet and give the tune a listen. I understand that Kuana even won a 2012 Na Hoku Hanohano Award for song of the year for Na Vaqueros.

A couple weeks ago David had request The Red Rose Cafe (by the Fureys) during one of our Vanikapilas. I had mentioned that I’d check into it next time around, as none of us in the studio knew the tune. I looked it up on YouTube and found it to be very reminiscent of Billy Joel’s Piano Man. Though from different parts of the world. It’s a nice “working class” tune that is very appealing, as most waltzes are. Click here to give it a listen and maybe we’ll try it this week as well.

uKeKu

as day turns to dusk,
we give, we take and we wait,
symmetry of life.

Ok, you’ve got your two song home work. Practice them when you can. See you in Cyberspace!

Aloha A hui hou!

-=SqL+Nohea+Jake=-

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Aloha Ahi Ahi UFOhana,

Are we really on our fifth month of Vanikapilas? Hard to believe it’s gone this long.

I hope you’ve all been staying safe and healthy out there. I know it’s been a rough journey for us all, considering all that’s transpired in the last 5 months, but lets “keep on keepin’ ” on as the song goes.

Click below to access this Saturday’s Vanikapila which, btw, will be on “808” (Hawaii’s Area Code) Day! The stars they are aligning . . .

Speaking of YouTube. Mahalo to all who participated the Life in Day event last week and to Wikio, Mahalo Nui Loa, for making it all possible. Thanks to all your timely submissions and Wikio’s hard work I was able to submit our piece a days before the deadline. I do have a copy, created just for the UFOhana, the Director’s Cut if you will, but I don’t want to release it just yet until I hear back from Ridley Scott and Crew.

Click below for online album of last week’s Vanikapila. Please text me at 415-300-7804 to RSVP a chair for this week’s OK (Outdoor Kanikapila). Mahalo to the OK Crew, Pauline, Don and Ralph for setting up last week!

I’d like to share the following with you from Marion’s family . . .

Mahalo nui to Craig for the beautiful photo of Marion. I believe she was dancing Na Makani Eha when the photo was taken. One of her favorite Hulas taught to her by Kumu Lynn Ka nani o ke anuenue Roth.

UkekU

pale moonlight dances,
graceful curves lit indigo,
night enters softly.

See you folks at the Vanikapila or the OK!

Malama Pono,

-=SqL+Nohea+Jake=-

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